Upcoming/Recent Shows

[Mack37]

Went to see Jason Isbell and the 400 unit last night at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. Strand of Oaks opened and we’re amazing. Never seen them before, but seemed really hyped up, because they sort of got there start opening of Jason years ago at shank hall. Not sure, I enjoyed the energy! Isbell and crew lit that place up! While I always want older songs in the set list, you can’t always get what you want. They killed every song. Jimbo was the winner of the night for me. He holds that low end down! The Riverside is one of my favorite venues in Milwaukee. Actually any of the Pabst Theater Group venues are. Our seats were in the last row of the lower level, easy way out and stood and danced the whole show. The couple in front of us were so happy because until Alabama pines no one else was standing. The sound was perfect. Highlight for me was first time getting to hear St. Peter’s Autograph. Beautiful song about a horrible subject. He stopped into the first verse and told folks to turn their phones off, cause he had played to a screen enough over that last year plus! Anyway I’ll stop boring y’all! Fourth concert since the shit down. It’s just so great to see live music again!

 

[threesunrises]

Saw Genesis in Philly last night, and though it was so sad to see Phil so frail, the show was phenomenal. He sat all night but his exuberance was palpable. His 19 year old son, Nick, was behind the drum kit and that kid can play. I loved seeing Phil play air drums as a proud dad in tandem with his son. Didn’t take many pix, but this video backdrop was pretty cool.

 

[threesunrises]

Went to see Jason Isbell and the 400 unit last night at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. Strand of Oaks opened and we’re amazing. Never seen them before, but seemed really hyped up, because they sort of got there start opening of Jason years ago at shank hall. Not sure, I enjoyed the energy! Isbell and crew lit that place up! While I always want older songs in the set list, you can’t always get what you want. They killed every song. Jimbo was the winner of the night for me. He holds that low end down! The Riverside is one of my favorite venues in Milwaukee. Actually any of the Pabst Theater Group venues are. Our seats were in the last row of the lower level, easy way out and stood and danced the whole show. The couple in front of us were so happy because until Alabama pines no one else was standing. The sound was perfect. Highlight for me was first time getting to hear St. Peter’s Autograph. Beautiful song about a horrible subject. He stopped into the first verse and told folks to turn their phones off, cause he had played to a screen enough over that last year plus! Anyway I’ll stop boring y’all! Fourth concert since the shit down. It’s just so great to see live music again!

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I first saw Strand of Oaks support Interpol in 2014ish and loved them. Have seen them two more times since. Great band.

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

Went to see Jason Isbell and the 400 unit last night at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. Strand of Oaks opened and we’re amazing. Never seen them before, but seemed really hyped up, because they sort of got there start opening of Jason years ago at shank hall. Not sure, I enjoyed the energy! Isbell and crew lit that place up! While I always want older songs in the set list, you can’t always get what you want. They killed every song. Jimbo was the winner of the night for me. He holds that low end down! The Riverside is one of my favorite venues in Milwaukee. Actually any of the Pabst Theater Group venues are. Our seats were in the last row of the lower level, easy way out and stood and danced the whole show. The couple in front of us were so happy because until Alabama pines no one else was standing. The sound was perfect. Highlight for me was first time getting to hear St. Peter’s Autograph. Beautiful song about a horrible subject. He stopped into the first verse and told folks to turn their phones off, cause he had played to a screen enough over that last year plus! Anyway I’ll stop boring y’all! Fourth concert since the shit down. It’s just so great to see live music again!

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I saw Strand of Oaks probably about 4 or so years ago now at a free street festival in Milwaukee put on by 88.9. A weird, but great combo of them and No Name. Strand of Oaks were killer live.

 

[Ericj32]

I don't have any photos but I saw back-to-back New Pornographers shows last night and the night before at the 9:30 club here in DC.

They had the full line-up as Dan Bejar has officially rejoined the band now, which is great. They all sound pretty incredible together - it really is special hearing him, Carl, and Neko all singing "War on the East Coast" or "Myriad Harbour" or "Testament to Youth in Verse" together. All of their voices just sound so distinctive. They also had Nora O'Connor with them on both nights - she apparently sang a lot of the backing vocals on Twin Cinema.

First night was Mass Romantic, second night was Twin Cinema. Both nights, they took a 5 minute break after playing the album through, and then came back onstage for another hour and half or so. There was a lot of overlap across both nights for the 11 or so songs in that second set, and I'm a much bigger fan of Mass Romantic than Twin Cinema, so in retrospect, I probably didn't need to go to both shows, but they're one of my favorite bands, so I still enjoyed the double-dose. There are certain songs of theirs, like "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism", "Myriad Harbour", and "Letter From An Occupant", that just feel so much bigger live (than on the album) and getting to hear each of those on both nights was a treat. Like the way that Neko repeatedly belts out that "we're coming over" near the end of "Champions of Red Wine" just gives me chills because the way she sings it live has this level of intensity and passion to it that you don't really hear on the record.

Spoiler: Other Things of Note (for those who don't mind reading a lot more)

- Neko Case is pretty ridiculous (in a good way) when it comes to on-stage banter. There were a lot of issues with the sound mixing the first night, and her boyfriend(?) "Jeff" was apparently helping out with addressing all the issues and ran onstage a few times to fiddle with things. There were several breaks between songs where Carl was talking to him to get things fixed the first night and Neko just started talking to the crowd about Jeff and random other things and after a while, she told us all to scream Jeff's name to the heavens, and then people started cheering loudly for him throughout the show from that point on and it became a running joke. Just listening to her rambling about loving the 9:30 club or bragging about her boyfriend was pretty entertaining. The second night, I was expecting her to bring up Jeff again and recycle some of the same anecdotes, but it was completely different, haha. At one point, she just out of nowhere told us all that, when she was moving her head side to side dramatically as she sang, it wasn't to look cool or sexy, but she was desperately trying to just get her very long hair out of her face because she had apparently been inhaling her own hair up her nose while singing lol. She just kept going with the joke and elaborating on how she needed her airways to be clear for her own safety and optimal singing ability, haha.

- Carl commented during the first night that they hadn't been able to play some of the songs on Mass Romantic before because they hadn't had a synth player touring with them, and they all seemed genuinely excited about getting to play the whole album. The second night, Carl commented that Twin Cinema was a really difficult album to play live and joked that he was getting really stressed out about it and kind of signaled that there might be good reasons why they haven't tried to play some of those songs live. He didn't seem to think that it was going really well, but I didn't really notice anything sounding off (but I'm not all that familiar with that album).

- Dan only came onstage for the songs that he sings on (which was about one in every 3 or 4 that they played) and didn't seem too enthusiastic about being there. Like, literally, the very second after he sang the last vocal in any of the songs, he'd just immediately put his mic back in the mic stand and turn around with his back to the audience, just kind of awkwardly staring at the drummer and bass player until the song ended so he could leave the stage. He didn't seem to want to interact much with anyone, even though the crowd was loudly cheering for him every time he came onstage. He smiled a few times though when the other band members tried to joke around with him, so maybe he's just shy. At one point on the second night, it looked like Carl was talking to him onstage during a song (when neither of them needed to sing but the rest of the band was playing) and then when the song ended, Dan went offstage, and then later Carl went offstage (not sure if it was to talk to Dan but he went in the direction of where Dan kept going when he'd leave the stage) for a long time and Neko just had to keep riffing for a good 5-7 minutes and it didn't necessarily seem like that was planned and they didn't really give an explanation. In a very general sense, it just felt like maybe they'd all had some tense conversations beforehand to negotiate what they all expected of each other during these performances, and they'd arrived at some kind of compromise that no one was necessarily thrilled about.

- When Carl went offstage for that long stretch, Neko just started talking about random things and then gradually started singing a song about how much she loved the 9:30 club and how it was her lover. It sounded like she was making it up as she went along, and the drummer gave her a beat and she kept going and going for so long that I started to think that maybe it was something she had prepared beforehand lol. She seemed relieved when Carl came back on the stage so they could move on with the show, but then, after a few seconds break, she just launched back into the song again and joked that she wasn't done singing about the 9:30 club because she's being wanting to get this off her chest for years and open up and choose to be strong by being vulnerable about it, and it was the hardest I've laughed about something in quite some time - she just kept going and going. She just seems like a fun person with a good sense of humor that would be fun to be on the road with because she seems to know just how to gently break the tension when people are getting stressed.

 

[Matt M]

I don't have any photos but I saw back-to-back New Pornographers shows last night and the night before at the 9:30 club here in DC.

They had the full line-up as Dan Bejar has officially rejoined the band now, which is great. They all sound pretty incredible together - it really is special hearing him, Carl, and Neko all singing "War on the East Coast" or "Myriad Harbour" or "Testament to Youth in Verse" together. All of their voices just sound so distinctive. They also had Nora O'Connor with them on both nights - she apparently sang a lot of the backing vocals on Twin Cinema.

First night was Mass Romantic, second night was Twin Cinema. Both nights, they took a 5 minute break after playing the album through, and then came back onstage for another hour and half or so. There was a lot of overlap across both nights for the 11 or so songs in that second set, and I'm a much bigger fan of Mass Romantic than Twin Cinema, so in retrospect, I probably didn't need to go to both shows, but they're one of my favorite bands, so I still enjoyed the double-dose. There are certain songs of theirs, like "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism", "Myriad Harbour", and "Letter From An Occupant", that just feel so much bigger live (than on the album) and getting to hear each of those on both nights was a treat. Like the way that Neko repeatedly belts out that "we're coming over" near the end of "Champions of Red Wine" just gives me chills because the way she sings it live has this level of intensity and passion to it that you don't really hear on the record.

Spoiler: Other Things of Note (for those who don't mind reading a lot more)

- Neko Case is pretty ridiculous (in a good way) when it comes to on-stage banter. There were a lot of issues with the sound mixing the first night, and her boyfriend(?) "Jeff" was apparently helping out with addressing all the issues and ran onstage a few times to fiddle with things. There were several breaks between songs where Carl was talking to him to get things fixed the first night and Neko just started talking to the crowd about Jeff and random other things and after a while, she told us all to scream Jeff's name to the heavens, and then people started cheering loudly for him throughout the show from that point on and it became a running joke. Just listening to her rambling about loving the 9:30 club or bragging about her boyfriend was pretty entertaining. The second night, I was expecting her to bring up Jeff again and recycle some of the same anecdotes, but it was completely different, haha. At one point, she just out of nowhere told us all that, when she was moving her head side to side dramatically as she sang, it wasn't to look cool or sexy, but she was desperately trying to just get her very long hair out of her face because she had apparently been inhaling her own hair up her nose while singing lol. She just kept going with the joke and elaborating on how she needed her airways to be clear for her own safety and optimal singing ability, haha.

- Carl commented during the first night that they hadn't been able to play some of the songs on Mass Romantic before because they hadn't had a synth player touring with them, and they all seemed genuinely excited about getting to play the whole album. The second night, Carl commented that Twin Cinema was a really difficult album to play live and joked that he was getting really stressed out about it and kind of signaled that there might be good reasons why they haven't tried to play some of those songs live. He didn't seem to think that it was going really well, but I didn't really notice anything sounding off (but I'm not all that familiar with that album).

- Dan only came onstage for the songs that he sings on (which was about one in every 3 or 4 that they played) and didn't seem too enthusiastic about being there. Like, literally, the very second after he sang the last vocal in any of the songs, he'd just immediately put his mic back in the mic stand and turn around with his back to the audience, just kind of awkwardly staring at the drummer and bass player until the song ended so he could leave the stage. He didn't seem to want to interact much with anyone, even though the crowd was loudly cheering for him every time he came onstage. He smiled a few times though when the other band members tried to joke around with him, so maybe he's just shy. At one point on the second night, it looked like Carl was talking to him onstage during a song (when neither of them needed to sing but the rest of the band was playing) and then when the song ended, Dan went offstage, and then later Carl went offstage (not sure if it was to talk to Dan but he went in the direction of where Dan kept going when he'd leave the stage) for a long time and Neko just had to keep riffing for a good 5-7 minutes and it didn't necessarily seem like that was planned and they didn't really give an explanation. In a very general sense, it just felt like maybe they'd all had some tense conversations beforehand to negotiate what they all expected of each other during these performances, and they'd arrived at some kind of compromise that no one was necessarily thrilled about.

- When Carl went offstage for that long stretch, Neko just started talking about random things and then gradually started singing a song about how much she loved the 9:30 club and how it was her lover. It sounded like she was making it up as she went along, and the drummer gave her a beat and she kept going and going for so long that I started to think that maybe it was something she had prepared beforehand lol. She seemed relieved when Carl came back on the stage so they could move on with the show, but then, after a few seconds break, she just launched back into the song again and joked that she wasn't done singing about the 9:30 club because she's being wanting to get this off her chest for years and open up and choose to be strong by being vulnerable about it, and it was the hardest I've laughed about something in quite some time - she just kept going and going. She just seems like a fun person with a good sense of humor that would be fun to be on the road with because she seems to know just how to gently break the tension when people are getting stressed.

I don't know that it's ever been any different with Dan, each time I've seen them he just ambles off stage right at or before the end of the song. I find it hilarious. I love the Dan songs.

 

[Ericj32]

I don't know that it's ever been any different with Dan, each time I've seen them he just ambles off stage right at or before the end of the song. I find it hilarious. I love the Dan songs.

Yeah I've seen them a few other times and couldn't really remember exactly how it went. I thought I remembered him just standing there until the end of the songs and doing a little dance shuffle until they ended but maybe not haha. I knew he left the band for a few years and didn't always tour with them and he doesn't contribute to every song, so it's just kind of a different dynamic than most bands seem to deal with, but I feel like everyone onstage and in the audience is pretty enthusiastic in celebrating everything he does onstage, which is nice. He's kind of like their secret weapon, but he just seems a little reluctant about it.

 

[Space Wanderer]

Great to see you’re back in a bar band baby.

 

[KenKaniff]

Last night in NH, The Ghost of Paul Revere. First time seeing them, good show. Nice little venue that opened up right pre-pandemic in a renovated super old movie theater. You could tell they used it as their first show in a little while to go over things before they fly out west this weekend for a west coast run of shows.

 

[Rip_City]

If all what was needed was simply calling out of work for being "sick" to see Jessy Lanza, I'd make that decision without hesitation all the time.

I arrived ~10 minutes after doors, and had to have been one of the first three to enter Holocene after skimming around the bar + stage room. Walked down to the unmanaged merch table to look over an array of different shirts/crewnecks/sweatshirts. Designs were a bit disappointing; just Jessy's name in a kind of title font that you'd see in Microsoft Word for posters detailing an upcoming work party. Same thing for the various hat designs. No vinyl, only media available were CDs of her first record Pull My Hair Back. There was also...lube, though not visible on the merch table.
Couldn't wait to get this started!



Golden Donna

Joel Shanahan (Golden Donna) is a DJ/musician/producer that combines drone, house, techno, and dub. His set was pretty impressive; crowd got into it quickly after a couple minutes of introductory drone music. Shanahan progressively layered electronic sequences which, in five minutes' time, became a full-on industrial techno banger. Transitioned to a different set of sounds after every ten minutes or so for the length of his 45min set, only stopping briefly once to get a crowd reaction from the conclusion of the first sequencing of loops.
Really really good, and I've got his music saved on Bandcamp to give a try at a later date.


Jessy Lanza

So so so fun!!
Only thing that was a bummer was in the form of a broken glass hazard just a foot away from me within the first song of Jessy's set "Anyone Around." You'll hear it roughly halfway through in the video below lol
The first half of the set primarily comprised mostly the singles from All the Time and some fan favorites from her previous albums. The second leg was more of an improvised DJ set, and also included a few songs I recognized from her recently released DJ Kicks.
I probably had more fun at this show than any other from this year so far, no joke. Perhaps not the best performance I've had this year per se, but one that I definitely lost myself in; I now understand why people love her live performances. She was often going to the front of the stage and jumping around when not DJing and locked hands with a couple of fans passionately belting out her name. Her neverending energy was pleasantly leftfield for me!




Post-show

Waited after the encore because, well, I have a thing for wanting the peak concertgoing experience. Looking around, there were actually at least two more liquor glasses that had broken along the sides of the stage room, yikes. This never happened during the Kelly Lee Owens, or (obviously) Arooj Aftab events.
However, ~15 minutes after the encore ended, the Holocene employees/security announced that they needed anyone in the stage area to vacate out to the merch floor or outside the venue. WTF?!?!? I shortly after learned that there was another event scheduled to take place in less than an hour which turned me furious, pacing around at first then immediately thought to approach and get the attention of the stage hand that was engaged in tear down. I requested for my All the Time jacket to be taken back to be signed by Jessy, which he seemed to be annoyed by me asking. He asked in a moderately condescending tone if I wanted any personalization on it to which I just shook my head and said that anything would be fine. The dude pilfered the jacket and marker from my hands (probably pinched the jacket from the spine, which explains why a few cracks are there now) and disappeared behind the stage. A minute passed and I was sweating bullets, seeing that I was the only one in the stage room by this point with four security guys probably losing their patience with me.
Astonishingly, Jessy appeared behind the stage and ambled up to me and greeted me with a warm smile and asked how I was/what I thought of the show. I replied shyly, and then she asked for my name. I provided that and she asked again to make sure along with requests for personalization (she apologized a few times throughout all of this, lol ). She started by writing a "Hi Markus!"...but then paused for a few seconds, proceeding to write my name again twice more while saying it out loud, and then her sig. She gave me a hug afterwards and we immediately walked together to the merch table where I just told her to keep the marker in case others wanted their merch signed. She gave me another hug and we wished each other a good night.
I forgot about the lube.



EDIT: A few grammar errors.

 

[Space Wanderer]

For anyone else who was at Massive Nights, especially if you hit the merch table:

 

[Rip_City]

Laura Marling. What a talent.

Minimalist setup. Just a mic stand, a few guitars intermittently switched out for various tunings, and Laura herself. No opener, and Laura's set ran about 90min.

Unfortunately, the lighting was not great for photos from my perspective...


Some shaky video of "Fortune," my favorite song of hers.



She's on my "must see" list for every date she strolls into Portland from now on. Captivating, bewitching, all of the fuzzy feelings.

 

[waruv]

I'm wondering if it's just me or has anyone else gotten some real sticker shock at recent concert prices? Acknowledging that inflation is real, that touring is increasingly the best/only way some musicians get paid, and all of that, I feel like I've had several recent experiences where I go to buy tickets to be truly shocked at not just the overall cost but even the lowest "get-in" price.

I'm going to see Sarah Jarosz this weekend in Portland in a tiny venue, and those two tickets cost me about $110 ($45 per plus fees). Jack Johnson just announced a tour at 8-10k seat venues and the GA Lawn Seats, after fees, run nearly $60 per + $10 for a lawn chair (if you want an actual seat it's $90 per or so). Lake Street Dive tends to charge a higher amount than other groups, but the get-in price for their Boston shows was about $75 a ticket (for a 3500 person GA venue). I think Clairo was in the $60 range for a 2k venue.

Ultimately, it seems like a chunk of these shows are still selling so, you know, it may not be out of line, but it's really causing me to be way more picky than I would have been otherwise or maybe to start prioritizing either huge musicians or cheaper, smaller local shows. JJ was almost certainly in my Top 10 "Haven't seen 'em" artists, but we're getting to the point where GA Festival tickets creep into the discussion (or al least a nice payment towards them) and it becomes harder to justify. Or...just buy more records I guess.

 

[imtheocean]

I'm wondering if it's just me or has anyone else gotten some real sticker shock at recent concert prices? Acknowledging that inflation is real, that touring is increasingly the best/only way some musicians get paid, and all of that, I feel like I've had several recent experiences where I go to buy tickets to be truly shocked at not just the overall cost but even the lowest "get-in" price.

I'm going to see Sarah Jarosz this weekend in Portland in a tiny venue, and those two tickets cost me about $110 ($45 per plus fees). Jack Johnson just announced a tour at 8-10k seat venues and the GA Lawn Seats, after fees, run nearly $60 per + $10 for a lawn chair (if you want an actual seat it's $90 per or so). Lake Street Dive tends to charge a higher amount than other groups, but the get-in price for their Boston shows was about $75 a ticket (for a 3500 person GA venue). I think Clairo was in the $60 range for a 2k venue.

Ultimately, it seems like a chunk of these shows are still selling so, you know, it may not be out of line, but it's really causing me to be way more picky than I would have been otherwise or maybe to start prioritizing either huge musicians or cheaper, smaller local shows. JJ was almost certainly in my Top 10 "Haven't seen 'em" artists, but we're getting to the point where GA Festival tickets creep into the discussion (or al least a nice payment towards them) and it becomes harder to justify. Or...just buy more records I guess.

Eddie Vedders upcoming tour really surprised / disappointed me. Tickets were $180/$200 ea (before fees) for the local show. Granted, he's playing small venues with a band that includes Glen Hansard & Chad Smith, but I couldn't pull the trigger on a $475 for two tickets after fees. No doubt it will sell out and fetch even more on the aftermarket, but was definitely a shock. And to your point, that price for an individual ticket on this tour is more expensive than the single day tickets for the Ohana Festival he headlined a few months ago.

 

[Djxfactor511]

Went to see Jason Isbell and the 400 unit last night at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. Strand of Oaks opened and we’re amazing. Never seen them before, but seemed really hyped up, because they sort of got there start opening of Jason years ago at shank hall. Not sure, I enjoyed the energy! Isbell and crew lit that place up! While I always want older songs in the set list, you can’t always get what you want. They killed every song. Jimbo was the winner of the night for me. He holds that low end down! The Riverside is one of my favorite venues in Milwaukee. Actually any of the Pabst Theater Group venues are. Our seats were in the last row of the lower level, easy way out and stood and danced the whole show. The couple in front of us were so happy because until Alabama pines no one else was standing. The sound was perfect. Highlight for me was first time getting to hear St. Peter’s Autograph. Beautiful song about a horrible subject. He stopped into the first verse and told folks to turn their phones off, cause he had played to a screen enough over that last year plus! Anyway I’ll stop boring y’all! Fourth concert since the shit down. It’s just so great to see live music again!

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Also saw Isbell this week in Akron. A show that was originally scheduled for June 2020 and then rescheduled twice because of COVID. Glad it finally happened. We had Molly Tuttle as an opener instead of Strand of Oaks, which is fine since I've seen SoO before and haven't seen Molly. Boy, what a great solo opener she was. Flatpicking and singing so sweetly. I was enamored.

So, confession. Reunions didn't really do it for me, so when Isbell and gang played 7 songs from the album, I can't say it was my favorite. This was my 5th time seeing him, so I have definitely seen better from them material-wise. I was pretty pumped that Sadler got some of the spotlight with a cover of his old band Drivin N Cryin's tune Honeysuckle Blue, which is featured on the Georgia Blue album they just put out.

 

[ayayrawn]

Not to be TMI, but I WOULD let Sierra Ferrell step on me.

 

[Renée]

Bully with special guest Graham Hunt - Black Cat, Washington, DC, 12/11/21

My brother introduced me to Sub Pop Records artist Bully years ago. I loved the garagey, grunge/punk energy of the band's sound, coupled with singer Alicia's roaring, ferocious voice. Flash forward to tonight, and I saw them! I even met Alicia and got a signed CD from her. Fantastic set, they ran through nearly 20 blistering, powerful songs in right around an hour. Opening was Graham Hunt, guitarist of Midwives, who had a strongly energetic set himself. Great night!

 

[Matt M]

Got up to Seattle for a quick night Thursday and caught The New Pornographers. Thought they were excellent, and Dan even seemed dare I say cheery! First time in the Neptune, a pretty solid room that reminds me of a little bit bigger Aladdin in Portland. Even ended the night with a crazy uber ride where we went two miles or so and were back where we started .

 

[Rip_City]

Caroline Polachek was good, but not great. Enjoyable, though I would place this concert near the bottom of my favorites this year when looking to reevaluate what I have seen.

No pictures of the opener as I was behind a row of people all who had at least 5 inches of height on me, but got to a better spot in front row by the time Caroline's set initiated. Here's some of the better quality shots I sifted through (she looks like Arca in some of these ):


Here's video of the songs in the encore, including a surprising cover of the Massive Attack classic with help from opener Oklou:




Maybe I'm just imagining things, but Caroline's vocals seemed off tonight, especially from the encore performance above. Perhaps the Portland weather is a culprit?
I failed to get records signed after a long wait (first time this year; not a bad percentage), the risk that comes with a larger venue.

 

[imtheocean]

Caught Chvrches last night, nearing the end of the tour for them. 2nd time seeing them, thought they were great. Plus my daughter loves them, so it was fun to bond over a show with her. Lots of energy, and I think Lauren can give Stevie Nicks a run for her money for twirling on stage. Was at the Observatory in San Diego, easily my favorite place to see a show and hadn't been to in 2 years.

Donna Missal opened, enjoyed her set as well - mostly originals but a solid cover of Fake Plastic Trees.